| 单词 | farcical |
| 释义 | farcical (once / 6965 pages) adj Something that's farcical is ridiculously funny — absurd, even. When you stumbled onstage, tripping over your costume and pulling down the backdrop, you brought a farcical element to the serious play. If it resembles a farce — a silly comedy that pokes fun at something — you can describe it as farcical, which is pronounced "FAR-cih-kul." Farcical comes from the Latin farcire, "to stuff," which influenced the French farce, a "comic interlude in a mystery play." It's thought that farce came to have this meaning because it was "stuffed" in between acts. WORD FAMILYfarcical: farcically+/farce: farced, farces, farcical, farcing USAGE EXAMPLESAmnesty International called the conviction "ludicrous" and the trial "farcical". BBC(Jan 02, 2017) He showed anew the crispness of his enunciation — in this case stretched to farcical parody — and his talent for broad comedy. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Current farcical attempts by the British government to regulate newspaper content are like building sandcastles in a tsunami. The Guardian(Dec 16, 2016) adj broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce the wild farcical exuberance of a clown Syn ludicrous, ridiculous humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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